The Atiku/Okowa Presidential Campaign Organisation has berated the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign for resorting to the diversionary tactics of attacking and bullying the media rather than explaining the allegations surrounding the shady past of its Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The Atiku/Okowa Campaign Organization, according to a press release by its Spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, demands that Asiwaju Tinubu and his bully handlers should face his self-inflicted woes instead of attempting to play the victim just to divert public attention from his very unpleasant past.
"It is reprehensible and unmistakable sign of culpability that Asiwaju Tinubu and his campaigners have desperately resorted to bullying, intimidating and harassing media houses and journalists with a view to silence and stop them from questioning Asiwaju Tinubu on allegations of perjury, forgery, corruption, massive treasury-looting and reported link to narcotics for which he forfeited a whooping sum of $460,000 through the Order of a Court of competent jurisdiction in the United States of America.
"We therefore consider this diversionary approach by the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign as very unwholesome and unacceptable assault on the very bedrock of democracy which is the right of the people to know, through a free press".
Ologbondiyan said Asiwaju Tinubu must understand that having brought himself out to contest for the position of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, he must prepare to explain himself to the littlest of Nigerians, as well as the media which has the basic constitutional responsibility to seek information on behalf of every Nigerian.
He said it is irresponsible, thoughtless and incautious that the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign will abandon its responsibility of assisting its Candidate to offer explanation, if he has any, rather than attacking media houses and demanding the sack of media practitioners for performing their professional and constitutional duties.
"The action of the TInubu/Shettima Campaign Organization further confirms that Asiwaju Tinubu lacks democratic credentials and has no business contesting for the office of the President of a country like Nigeria where citizens are resolute in their demand for a credible and acceptable leader, who has no skeleton of narcotics hidden in his cupboard.
"Indeed, Asiwaju Tinubu has shown that he does not possess the qualities of the leader Nigerians are yearning for at this critical time of our history.
"Our campaign urges Asiwaju Tinubu to note that his diversionary tactic and attack on the media will not stop Nigerians from raising the necessary posers".
The Spokesperson said Tinubu should therefore fold his ‘agbada’ and respond to the media and Nigeria on the issues at hand.
He called on Tinubu to provide answers to his reported forfeiture of $460,000 to the authorities of the United States of America which was traced to narcotics and address allegations of certificate forgery, perjury, treasury-looting, continued fleecing of Lagos State as well as inconsistencies in his name, educational qualification, ancestry, and reported link with narcotics.
Ologbondiyan said this is in addition to Tinubu's many gaffes, his constant claim of credit on the achievements of others as well as his reported plot to incite violence in the 2023 general elections by directing his supporters to grab, snatch and run away with power.
"These are questions which Asiwaju Tinubu, having brought himself out, must submit to a public probity by the Nigerian media", he concluded.
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